ELISHA MITCHELL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 8i 
1896 from Mr. M. Alexander, a jeweler in Asheville. 
After some difficulty the occurrence was located, during 
the summer of 1897, and the locality has been thoroughly 
worked by Geo. L. English & Co. of New York, with 
the result that many good crystals of the cyanite have 
been obtained. 
The mineral occurs in a decomposed mica schist from 
which the single crystals are easily separated. The 
crystals are often intergrown and masses of these were 
obtained as large as one’s two fists. All of the crystals 
found were of a rich grass-green color and many were 
quite transparent, <A few of the crystals showed a deep 
blue center with the grass-green margins. The crystals 
vary in size from 1X°7°" to 3°2X6°™; a few coarser ones 
were observed that were considerably larger. The fin- 
est crystal that has been found at this locality measured 
5°8 xX 2°21°8°" and was perfectly transparent at one end 
for about 2°". The three pinacoids were the only faces 
observed on this crystal and these were evenly and well 
develoved. This crystal is now in the Brush Collection 
at New Haven, Conn. ‘The faces are generally smooth, 
giving fair reflections of the signal on the reflecting go- 
niometer. ; 
The forms observed on these crystals are as follows. 
c, 001 a, 100 WM. 110 
5, 010 m, 110 Q, 120 Z. Bau 
The face 520 is apparently a new one for cyanite. 
The three pinacoids were the only faces observed on the 
majority of the crystals, some of which were doubly ter- 
minated. After a very careful examination of the termi- 
natio s, they were decided to be real basal planes and 
not cleavage surfaces. On one of the crystals, all of the 
faces observed were developed. 
The following table shows the identification of the 
forms by calculated and measured angles. In obtaining 
the calculated angles the elements given in Dana’s Min- 
